Bug 1348878 (CVE-2016-2374) - CVE-2016-2374 pidgin: MXIT MultiMX Message Code Execution Vulnerability
Summary: CVE-2016-2374 pidgin: MXIT MultiMX Message Code Execution Vulnerability
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-2374
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1350338 1403136
Blocks: 1348890
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Reported: 2016-06-22 09:06 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:40 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: pidgin 2.11.0
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:55:40 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-06-22 09:06:22 UTC 
An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the handling of the MXIT protocol in Pidgin. Specially crafted MXIT MultiMX message sent via the server can result in an out-of-bounds write leading to memory disclosure and code execution.

External references:

http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0142/
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=107

Upstream fixes:

https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main/commits/f6c08d962618
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